While big city newspapers lose readers to online sources and television, small town newspapers are thriving. This book shares rousing, thought-provoking, and sometimes funny stories about the newspapers themselves and the proprietors/editors/reporters (often all the same person) tangling with the issues and difficulties of living among the people they're reporting about. The author showcases these journalists as they range from censorship problems to big corporation corruption to cranky neighbors, restoring the reader's faith in print media a little bit along the way.

Chris H.